Monday, April 30, 2012

Wild And Windy ......Bye Bye Wrenbury

Approaching Baddiley Lock( which one?)

We woke this morning to windy weather, OK it wasn't raining but it's not easy moving a narrowboat in the wind. First of all I had to go and open the electric lift bridge and cause havoc by holding up the traffic......only three cars today. Ben and I then walked on to open the next lift bridge but it was open so we went through. A few bridges on we got back on the boat as I knew there was a bog before the Baddiley Locks. Eric struggled to get into the side with the wind blowing the boat across the cut and it wasn't easy getting into the top lock. We continued our walk working through the next two locks and able to leave the bottom gates open for the next boat coming up. After Swanley Locks we moored up as Eric wanted to restick the wooden panel on one of the back doors and now it's got screws as well to keep it well and joined to the metal door. So jobs done, time to cook the tea.

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I retired from primary teaching in 2006 and am now living afloat with my husband Eric on our narrowboat called 'Bendigedig'. The name means wonderful. After ten years afloat we are still enjoying life. For several years we wintered in Llangollen in north Wales and then spent seven months cruising mainly canals with occasional rivers. Two years ago things changed as we felt we needed a home, somewhere to leave the boat when we needed to be in Newport. We now have a residential mooring at Whixall Marina which is lovely and quiet away from noisy roads and trains. We will use it as a base to cruise from when we get itchy feet in the Summer months. If we don't want to cruise it's great to have a home. We needed a car so we aren't totally cut off from the world, which also makes visiting our family so much easier. Although Ben the dog has been less active since he had meningitis he still enjoys life with us on the boat and loves to be out and about sniffing new smells on much shorter walks.